[Mapserver-users] PDF problems

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

There is no plan to do these upgrades right now. Depending on the effort 
required to implement them, we will try to get those features for the 
4.1 release.
  Bugs related to these have been entered for follwong purposes 
(489,490,492).

Later,

William K wrote:

> I thought I'd look into PDF output and found a few problems.  I'm aware 
> of the alternate method of generating a high-resolution png and using 
> PHP to generate the PDF, but I find the PDF output quality works fine.
> 
> - pattern fills don't work.  Whether it's a raster png pattern or vector 
> pattern, in the PDF it's a solid color fill.
> 
> - point symbols - for png symbols, the transparency is ignored.  vector 
> symbols work fine.
> 
> - line symbols - dashes don't work, it ends up as a solid line in the PDF.
> 
> Any plans or solutions to fix these issues? (besides the PNG method)
> 
> -----
> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at charter.net>
> http://webpages.charter.net/kyngchaos/
> 
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> 
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> what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear 
> and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.  There is 
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> 
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